Saturday, November 17, 2012

Here at MJM Magic, I try to make it my life's mission to always be
upfront and HONEST with our customers. The point of this email is that I
want to reassure you that we take great measures to protect both your
privacy AND your financial information.

With the holiday season
upon us, and most of us spending a lot of money with online purchases,
there's never been a more crucial time to make sure you're shopping with
a PROTECTED business.

Recently, there was a very well known
magic store that essentially has gone out of business (or more aptly
put, they were SHUT DOWN by the Federal Government). I was shocked to
find out that they were actually STEALING financial information from
their customers, and secretly charging money to their credit cards
behind their backs. Over a two year period, they stole over HALF A
MILLION dollars from their customers. This is a company who has been in
the industry for DECADES, and I was appalled to hear about their
dishonest behavior.

This is obviously unforgivable in my eyes.
When a customer trusts you by making a purchase with their hard earned
money, a store needs to not only protect that confidentiality, but they
need to GUARANTEE IT.

Well, this is why I am writing to you. I
want you to know that at MJM Magic, we GUARANTEE the safety of your
privacy and financial information.

How can we do this?

1.
First of all, whenever you do anything on our website that involves
passwords or making payments, our website encrypts those pages. We use
the same type of encryption that banks and credit card companies use on
their own websites to protect customer data.

Most reputable magic stores do this. However, we take it ONE STEP FURTHER with the following:

2.
MJM Magic is what's known as "PCI COMPLIANT." PCI stands for "Payment
Card Industry." That means that we are audited by a third party company
who ENSURES that we are following all the codes and regulations which
are needed to protect our customer's financial data.

For example,
when you submit your credit card to us for making an order, not only do
we encrypt that data during the transaction, but WE DON'T STORE THAT INFORMATION ANYWHERE IN OUR DATABASE. That's right. We don't keep your credit card information on file where others can grab it.

(This
is how most companies rip off customers. They keep your credit card
information on file, where a dishonest employee can access it, or
possibly an outside hacker that gets access to the database through a
backdoor program).

We also go through very rigorous
auditing by security professionals who review our account every three
months, to always ensure that you're safe to shop at MJM Magic.

To prove what we're saying, you can click this link to see our Certification:

Don't
just take a companies word that they are protecting you. They should
be able to prove it with certification like we have above.

Any
company can say, "Of course we protect you! We would never store your
information online." But can they prove it? Can they show you a third
party certificate who audits their server and ensures that they're
telling the truth?

So the bottom line is that I take protecting
your information very seriously. When I personally shop online, I make
sure that the company who takes my information is PCI Compliant and
HTTPS protected. If they aren't, then I make sure that I shop
elsewhere, or use a protected service like PayPal to send payment to
them, since PayPal will protect you as the consumer against most
fraudulent practices.

So hopefully this email sheds some light on
your protection with MJM Magic, and opens your eyes to the dangers of
online shopping without protection. If you do any other online
shopping, be very careful about shopping with ANYONE who isn't PCI
Compliant. Just because they secure their website with an HTTPS
encryption doesn't mean that they don't keep your credit card details in
a database where others can access it.

Being PCI Compliant isn't
easy, and we were surprised at how many exploits and loopholes are out
there in the online world that can allow a hacker to access data. So
just be aware that at MJM Magic, we are PCI Compliant and we want you to
shop with confidence on our website.

If you have any other
questions, please feel free to contact me! I am only writing this
message to you because of how SHOCKED I was to hear about another big
magic company who deceived its customers for over half a million
dollars.

About Me

Jeff Mash founded MJM Magic back in August 2004. With a background in customer service and a childhood love for magic, Jeff wanted to start a company that merged these two passions together.

What started off as a novel concept has ballooned into a huge reputable company. Considered by many distributing companies as being one of the top FOUR largest online magic shops in the world, MJM Magic has solidified its reputation for providing the best magic to customers with the best customer service.